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The Two Horsemen of the Revolution

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Casimir Pułaski and Michael Kováts, both immigrants, earned a place in history as “the fathers of the U.S. Cavalry.” As the principal attention in Poland had been for some time past paid to the cavalry,” George Washington dryly noted in a letter to the Continental Congress on August 18, 1777, “it is to be presumed …

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